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Nutrition RSS FeedsGulf Coast Seafood Safety - The BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill has resulted in personal tragedy and loss of lives. It's also affecting the environment along the coasts. A reader asked me if the seafood caught on the gulf coasts is still safe to eat. So far, it is safe to eat gulf coast seafood.More About Marine Life in the Gulf and the Oil Spill: Marine Life in the Gulf of Mexico ...Feed Source: nutrition.about.com Healthy Eating and Travel - Will you be traveling yet this summer? When you're on the road, it may seem like healthy food is difficult to find and that you're doomed to eat junk food until you reach your destination. But that doesn't have to be the case; you can find healthy foods while you're traveling if you know where to look. Many convenience stores offer fresh fruit (you just need to search beyond the greasy chips and candy bars that are usually displayed prominently). You might want to pack a small cooler with fresh snacks and beverages that you have at home. This also saves you money since many things at the convenience stores are a little more expensive than what you already bought at the grocery store. Here are some more of my ... Six Weeks to a Healthier Diet - If you don't think your diet is on the right track, I created this six week email course to help you take the steps to turn your not-so-healthy diet around. After you sign up for the course, you'll receive an email with a lesson that focuses on just one component of a healthy diet. You'll get one week to practice your new healthy eating habit before the next email lesson arrives. I'll also give you a quiz each week, so you'll know how well you understand the lessons.Sign up now.
Daily Nutrition TipPhoto © Richard S... Review Your Diet Program - Have you ever joined a diet program to help you lose or maintain your weight? Was it a good experience and did you meet your goals or were you disappointed, and left feeling like you wasted your time or money? I'm collecting reader reviews for diet programs: Write a Review: Diet ProgramsRead the ReviewsDaily Nutrition Tip
Review Your Diet Program originally appeared on ... US FDA Seeking Comments On Menu Nutrition Information - The Food and Drug Administration invites the public to submit comments and information about the new law (Section 4205 of the Affordable Care Act) requiring restaurants and similar retail food establishments that are part of a chain with 20 or more locations to list calorie content information on menus and menu boards, including drive-through menu boards. Other nutrition information such as fat, sodium and sugar content must be offered upon request.
If you'd like to leave a comment, or read comments, you'll find them on Regulations.gov, docket number FDA-2010-N-0298. To leave a comment click on 'comment due' to reach the comment page.
... SUSTA Sweetener - A few weeks ago, I received a sample of SUSTA sweetener from NXT Nutritionals, Inc. I was willing to try the product because there is plenty of interest in natural low calorie sweeteners. SUSTA is made from natural ingredients such as inulin, fructose (not high fructose corn syrup or sugar), probiotics, plus it has vitamin C, a few other vitamins, minerals and natural extracts added to it. SUSTA has a nice sweet flavor with just a slight aftertaste when tasted straight from the packet (in my opinion, much less than other low and zero calorie sweeteners) and when I use SUSTA with my morning cereal or in coffee, I don't notice the aftertaste. SUSTA is sold in single serving packets and each serving has 5 calories and 10% of your daily vitamin C, plus a few other nutrients. It also adds a little bit of probiotics and prebiotics, which may help your digestive system stay healthy.I haven'... Raw Milk Safety - Raw milk has become a bit of a controversial topic. While you can't buy raw milk in the grocery stores in the United States, you may be able to buy it locally depending on your state laws. Raw milk proponents prefer the flavor of raw milk and some believe it's also better for you. Raw milk opponents worry about the potential for dangerous infections from bacteria found in raw milk. Is raw milk safe?I've tasted raw milk, right from the dairy tank, and it really does taste delicious. But I figured that was mostly due to the higher fat content. ... FDA Suggests Limits on Antibiotics Use In Animals - Antibiotic resistant pathogens are a public health issue and this week the FDA released a draft guidance suggesting limits on antibiotics use in livestock. You'd expect antibiotics to be used to treat sick animals, and they are, but antibiotics are also used to enhance the growth of agricultural animals. Some experts believe this is one of the reasons we're seeing more antibiotic resistant pathogens. The draft guidance states antibiotics should only be used to protect the health of animals and all animals being treated should be under the care of a veterinarian. The FDA is asking for comments and suggestions for their draft guidance - the contact information is included with ... Kellogg's Cereal Recall - Kellogg's is recalling four varieties of breakfast cereals due to a substance that can make the cereal taste and smell not so good. While the substance is considered harmless, some people may be sensitive to it and suffer from short bouts of diarrhea and nausea.Kellogg's has more information in their consumer alert.
Daily Nutrition TipKellogg's Cereal Recall originally appeared on About.com Nutrition on Monday, June 28th, 2010 at 14:12:38.... Upcoming Dietary Guidelines - Every five years the US Department of Agriculture joins the Department of Health and Human Services to release Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The 2010 Guidelines will be released later this year. A lot of research and review goes into these guidelines by an advisory committee. Although we have to wait a few more months for the final guidelines, the advisory committee released their preliminary findings. This year, the guidelines will focus on reducing dietary sodium, solid fats, and added sugars. The committee also urges Americans to add more plant based foods such as fruits and vegetables into the diet and suggests following the 2008 guidelines for physical activity.
Daily Nu... Further decrease in glycated hemoglobin following ingestion of a LoBAG30 diet for 10 weeks compared to 5 weeks in people with untreated type 2 diabetes - Background:
We previously determined that a weight-maintenance, non-ketogenic diet containing 30% carbohydrate (CHO), 30% protein, 40% fat, (30:30:40) (LoBAG30) decreased glycated hemoglobin (%tGHb) from 10.8 to 9.1% over a 5 week period in subjects with untreated type 2 diabetes. Both the fasting glucose and postprandial glucose area were decreased. Our objective in the present 10-week study was to determine: 1) whether the above results could be maintained, or even improved (suggesting a metabolic adaptation) and 2) whether the subjects would accept the diet for this longer time period. In addition, protein balance, and a number of other blood and urine constituents were quantified at 5 and at 10 weeks on the LoBAG30 diet to address metabolic adaptation.
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Eight men with untreated type 2 diabetes were studied over a 10-week period. Blood was drawn and urine was collected over a 24 hour period at the beginning of the study with subjects ingesting a standard diet of 55% CHO,... Rest energy expenditure is decreased during the acute as compared to the recovery phase of sepsis in newborns - Background:
: Little is known with respect to the metabolic response and the requirements of infected newborns. Moreover, the nutritional needs and particularly the energy metabolism of newborns with sepsis are controversial matter. In this investigation we aimed to evaluate the rest energy expenditure (REE) of newborns (1-90 days) with bacterial sepsis during the acute and the recovery phases.MethodS: We studied nineteen neonates (27.3+17.2 days old) with bacterial sepsis during the acute phase and recovery of their illness. REE was determined by indirect calorimetry and VO2 and VCO2 measured by gas chromatography.
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: REE significantly increased from 49.4+13.1 kcal/kg/day during the acute to 68.3+10.9 kcal/kg/day during recovery phase of sepsis (P... The effect of calcium and vitamin D supplementation on obesity in postmenopausal women: secondary analysis for a large-scale, placebo controlled, double-blind, 4-year longitudinal clinical trial - Background:
It is undetermined whether calcium supplementation has an effect on obesity or body composition in postmenopausal women. The purpose of the study is to detect the effect of calcium supplementation on indices of obesity and body composition.
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This is a secondary analysis of data from a population-based, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial designed to determine the effects of calcium and vitamin D on osteoporotic fractures. The cohort included 1179 postmenopausal women who were randomly assigned into one of three groups: 1) supplemental calcium (1400 mg/d or 1500 mg/d) plus vitamin D placebo (Ca-only group); 2) supplemental calcium (1400mg/d or 1500 mg/d) plus supplemental vitamin D3 (1100 IU/d) (Ca + D group); or, 3) two placebos (placebo group). After applying the exclusion criteria for this analysis, 870 subjects were included in this study. The primary outcomes for the present study were changes in body mass index, trunk fat, trunk lean, and percent... Calcium from salmon and cod bone is well absorbed in young healthy men:a double-blinded randomised crossover design
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Calcium (Ca) - fortified foods are likely to play an important role in helping the consumer achieve an adequate Ca intake, especially for persons with a low intake of dairy products. Fish bones have a high Ca content, and huge quantities of this raw material are available as a by-product from the fish industry. Previously, emphasis has been on producing high quality products from fish by-products by use of bacterial proteases. However, documentation of the nutritional value of the enzymatically rinsed Ca-rich bone fraction remains unexplored. The objective of the present study was to assess the bioavailability of calcium in bones of Atlantic salmon (oily fish) and Atlantic cod (lean fish) in a double-blinded randomised crossover design.
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Ca absorption was measured in 10 healthy young men using 47Ca whole body counting after ingestion of a test meal extrinsically labelled with the 47Ca isotope. The three test meals contained 800 mg of Ca from three different calcium ... Increased hypolipidemic benefits of cis-9, trans-11 conjugated linoleic acid in combination with trans-11 vaccenic acid in a rodent model of the metabolic syndrome, the JCR:LA-cp rat - Background:
Conjugated linoleic acid (cis-9, trans-11 CLA) and trans-11 vaccenic acid (VA) are found naturally in ruminant-derived foods. CLA has been shown to have numerous potential health related effects and has been extensively investigated. More recently, we have shown that VA has lipid-lowering properties associated with reduced hepatic lipidogenesis and chylomicron secretion in the JCR:LA-cp rat. The aim of this study was to evaluate potential additional hypolipidemic effects of purified forms of CLA and VA in an animal model of the metabolic syndrome (the JCR:LA-cp rat).
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Twenty four obese JCR:LA-cp rats were randomized and assigned to one of three nutritionally adequate iso-caloric diets containing 1% w/w cholesterol and 15% w/w fat for 16 wk: 1) control diet (CD), 2) 1.0% w/w cis-9, trans-11 CLA (CLA), 3) 1.0% w/w VA and 1% w/w cis-9, trans-11 CLA (VA+CLA). Lean rats were fed the CD to represent normolipidemic conditions.
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Fasting plasma triglyceride (TG), tot... Calorie restriction and endurance exercise share potent anti-inflammatory function in adipose tissues in ameliorating diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance in mice - Background:
Calorie restriction (CR) and endurance exercise are known to attenuate obesity and improve the metabolic syndrome. The aim of this study was to directly compare the effects of CR and endurance exercise in a mouse model of diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance.
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Adult male C57BL/6N mice were randomly assigned and subjected to one of the six interventions for 8 weeks: low-fat diet (LC, 10% fat), low-fat diet with 30% calorie restriction (LR), high-fat diet (HC, 60% fat), high-fat diet with 30% calorie restriction (HR), high-fat diet with voluntary running exercise (HE), and high-fat diet with a combination of 30% calorie restriction and exercise (HRE). The impacts of the interventions were assessed by comprehensive metabolic analyses and pro-inflammatory cytokine gene expression.
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Endurance exercise significantly attenuated high-fat diet-induced obesity. CR dramatically prevented high-fat diet-induced metabolic abnormalities. A combination of CR and endu... A specific protein-enriched enteral formula decreases cortisolemia and improves plasma albumin and amino acid concentrations in elderly patients - Background:
Old age is associated with an involuntary and progressive but physiological loss of muscle mass. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of exclusive consumption for 6 months of a protein-enriched enteral diet with a relatively high content of branched-chain amino acids on albuminemia, cortisolemia, plasma amino acids, insulin resistance, and inflammation biomarkers in elderly patients.
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Thirty-two patients from the Clinical Nutrition Outpatient Unit at our hospital exclusively consumed a protein-enriched enteral diet for 6 months. Data were collected at baseline and at 3 and 6 months on anthropometric and biochemical parameters and on plasma concentrations of amino acids, cortisol, adrenocorticotropic hormone, urea, creatinine, insulin resistance, and inflammation biomarkers.
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The percentage of patients with albumin concentration below normal cut-off values decreased from 18% to 0% by the end of the study. At 6 months, concentrations of total plas... Chronic leucine supplementation improves glycemic control in etiologically distinct mouse models of obesity and diabetes mellitus - Background:
Leucine may function as a signaling molecule to regulate metabolism. We have previously shown that dietary leucine supplementation significantly improves glucose and energy metabolism in diet-induced obese mice, suggesting that leucine supplementation could potentially be a useful adjuvant therapy for obesity and type 2 diabetes. Since the underlying cause for obesity and type 2 diabetes is multifold, we further investigated metabolic effects of leucine supplementation in obese/diabetes mouse models with different etiologies, and explored the underlying molecular mechanisms.
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Leucine supplementation was carried out in NONcNZO10/LtJ (RCS10) - a polygenic model predisposed to beta cell failure and type 2 diabetes, and in B6.Cg-Ay/J (Ay) - a monogenic model for impaired central melanocortin receptor signaling, obesity, and severe insulin resistance. Mice in the treatment group received the drinking water containing 1.5% leucine for up to 8 months; control mice received... Identification of the Eph receptor pathway as a novel target for eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) modification of gene expression in human colon adenocarcinoma cells (HT-29) - Background:
The health benefits of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), particularly those of the n-3 series are well documented. The mechanisms by which these effects are mediated are not fully clarified.
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We used microarrays to assess the effects on gene expression in HT29 colon adenocarcinoma cells of exposure to the n-3 fatty acid eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA). HT29 cells were cultured with EPA (150 ?M) for up to 24 hr prior to harvesting and isolation of RNA. Microarray results were analyzed within the statistical package 'R', and GeneGo MetaCore was used to identify key pathways of altered gene expression.
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EphB4, Vav2 and EphA1 gene expression were identified as significantly altered by EPA treatment. Statistically significant changes in gene expression after HT29 exposure to EPA were confirmed in a second experiment by real-time RT-PCR (TaqMan), This experiment also compared the effects of exposure to EPA to arachadonic acid (AA, n-6). Corresponding changes in pro... Effect of long-term treatment with antioxidants (vitamin C, vitamin E, coenzyme Q10 and selenium) on arterial compliance, humoral factors and inflammatory markers in patients with multiple cardiovascular risk factors. - Background:
Antioxidant supplementations have the potential to alleviate the atherosclerotic damage caused by excessive production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). The present study evaluated the effects of prolonged antioxidant treatment on arterial elasticity, inflammatory and metabolic measures in patients with multiple cardiovascular risk factors.
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Study participants were randomly assigned to two groups. Group 1 received oral supplementation with 2 capsules per day of Mid Life Guard, SupHerb, Israel. In each capsule vitamin C (500 mg) vitamin E (200 iu), co-enzyme Q10 (60 mg) and selenium (100 mcg), Group 2 received matching placebo(SupHerb) for 6 months. Patients were evaluated for lipid profile, HbA1C, insulin, C-peptide, hs-CRP, endothelin, aldosterone, plasma renin activity and Homeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance (HOMA-IR). Arterial elasticity was evaluated using pulse wave contour analysis (HDI CR 2000, Eagan, Minnesota).
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